American McGee's Grimm

Sergei Dumac
Source: PC GAMES number in September 2008	20.08.2008

The Second World

Authors: Vadim Bobrov
	05.01.2007

Protracted game developers who for years fed the players with promises and hopes, in the end are usually quite good games, strong and sturdy. However, no "shock the foundations or the fantastic gameplay, which they attributed in absentia, they usually do not show. That is what happened with the "Second World". Five campaigns: in the USSR, Germany, USA / Britain, France and even Poland! The battlefields 2x2 kilometers in size! Modified engine "IL-2"! Fair ballistics! These TTX! Impressive? Yes, but it is not the whole list.

NecroVision

Author: Anatoly Sonin
Source: Country Games № June 2009	05.04.2009

The First World War claimed the lives of 16 million people - is, by the way, the population of the Netherlands. During the Second World lost five times more, but has continually make games, make films, write books. Feats of grandparents we remember so well, but forgot about the great-grandparents. NecroVision, however, do not tell you about them.

Race - The WTCC Game

Author: Ashot Hakhverdyan
Source: Country Games № January 2007	05.01.2007

Dedicated racing game Race WTCC (World Touring Car Championship). This is a race to the production car - in the rules of FIA says that the current 12 months for each machine must be made in an amount not less than two and a half thousand. Of course, before racing cars are a significant improvement, but there is established a set of constraints (eg, engine size should not exceed 2000 cubic cm). In general, the rate in the WTCC much smaller than in the GT-class, and especially in F1, and it makes the most affordable RACE hardcore simulation of modern vehicles. In addition, transient race - only 50 kilometers, which, for example, over six times less than in F1.

Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command

Author: Alexander Trifonov
Source: Country Games № August 2008	15.04.2008

One of the first tactical game was Space Crusade, which appeared in the primeval 1992. Given the current craze to republish classic hits on the handheld consoles, Squad Command is arguably such a "creative reinterpretation", the benefit of both games are created under a single license.

Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion

Author: Alexander Trifonov
Source: Country Games № 22 2005	15.11.2005

Greetings from the Stone Age - dogs, wild asses. Notice how the scatter enemies. IV century BC. Christianity spread throughout the world, and the great migration of peoples plunged Europe into chaos, that the descendants would be called Dark Ages. Vandals have ever put your name down in history as a symbol of the senseless and ruthless destruction, and other tribes gave the world map France and Saxony, Burgundy and Lombardy ...

Monsters vs. Aliens

Author: Dmitry Karasev
Source: PC GAMES № May 2009	13.05.2009

FEAR Extraction Point

Ashot Hakhverdyan
Source: Country Games № 23 2006	05.12.2006

The action begins exactly the same place where the original game ended. We come to after the Big Bang and otryahnuvshis, start hunting for the same enemies, which calms the last time. Since the plot of the original game special admiration of the audience did not call, this time it simply does not have delivered: a new plot did not appear and the old somehow drained away by itself. Tiny plot insertion, however, is still constantly arise in our way, but now they do not lead anywhere in particular. Those who passed the original game, do not learn anything new, and the rest, it seems, did not understand what is happening. However, from here take these others?

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates

Author: Sergey «TD» Tsilyurik
Source: Country Games № October 2008	15.05.2008

Crystal Chronicles - as an eyesore fans Final Fantasy. Came out on GameCube, is focused on multiplayer, but for the full transmission requires not only much as three friends, but also with four GBA link cable - not something that used to brought up on "pleysteyshnovskih» Final Fantasy gamers.

Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures. Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees

Author: Vladimir Karpov
Source: PC GAMES number in June 2009	05.06.2009

GTA III (PC)

Viktor Tarasov
	25.07.2002

GTA III Platform: PC Genre: Action / Racing Developer: Rockstar North Publisher: Rockstar Games Syst. Requirements: Pentium 450, 64Mb RAM, 3D Accelerator with 16 Mb VRAM, 500MB hard drive Homepage: http://grandtheftauto3.com/ Ca. Ed.: While on our site have already been published two reviews prefixal version was discovered demand a separate article on the PC-version of GTA3. Please! Came in and out components of the gaming festival - came out on PC Grand Theft Auto III. Previously, we could just licking their lips at pristavochnikov who managed to get acquainted with Siim creation as much as 7 months before. But we solemnly swear to skate, otgrabit, otvorovat and otugonyat its full. That is only to master this little non-standard views, with these awkward shooting and beating fast cars ... So what are we waiting for, and what happens? At first, everyone wanted a new three-dimensionality and the old form at the top. Then, when the public saw the picture a la "NFS and his followers," is firmly lodged in the brain thought: "What about the old and the gameplay is so dear?" After the vision of screenshots from the man like Max Payne, ingrained sense of that from our favorite GTA want to make another slow-witted 3D-Action. Soon the new details: there will be multiplayer, but it will be GTA 4, freedom of action will remain, but will be subject, etc. As a result of innovations is uniquely can only say that the first two GTA then little is left. Terribly uncomfortable, but still present "for show" top view, the old atmosphere in slightly new interpretation of - almost a full list of what will be found after a long search for the most hard-nosed fans. Well, everyone else will just play in a brand new GTA. Those who had the three digits in the name of a favorite game, has rushed into the store. Those who stayed, tortured question that the game is still similar. I'll be brief. Most GTA III is similar to a mixture of thriller four years ago Urban Chaos and popularly beloved, but silly simulator hijacker Driver. Oh yeah, under "similarity" should be written and the hero looking like uncombed and unshaven Max Payne. The gameplay is somewhere between these three games with a bias in the ability to drive cars. Game is still about the hijackers. Since most of you reading this story gamers had to read the reviews holes platformers versions of GTA III, will leave behind a positive article quality by examining some of the shortcomings of the whole game and the differences from the PC-version of the console counterparts. Get started! Many kind words for Rockstar North in person made ​​me say the control of a hero. Skirmishes in the game and did cause enduring hostility to the programmers who created these things. At a time when hostile mob chase you into a quiet dead-end place to walk away from the police, not the time to miss, firing ultrasound. A miss! That's because the sight of leaping, like a madman, and the aim is great difficulty, and the camera continually changes its angle just because it seems so better.And I do not think so! Inevitably have a large portion of villains to destroy the bumper and windshield car, getting out only for the selection of bonuses. Slightly surprised by a new approach to life, death and the arrest of glavgeroya. If in the earlier parts of GTA in this regard was pure arcade, the third part of the developers probably decided to claim a higher level. Doctors for the N-ную amount you podlechat, zashyut, on its feet, clean, and yes even nadushat cologne. Therefore, we can not be afraid to sink, burn, explode - just die. In the worst case, after you provide first aid you will only lose the mission. Police, much to the surprise and behave very courteously - trying to arrest, rather than shoot. And nothing about the military, which appear completely filled with the scale of tolerance ", and say nothing - they never give themselves a courtesy by white hands forward you to the site. And even if some stray shell fired a tank will get into your car, you just end up in hospital, for further see above. Many were probably wondering what PC-version differs from versions of platformers. Few, only some of the specific computer features done. For example, in a specially designated folder, you can put your favorite mp3-files, and the game will be a new radio, which will be exclusively "on your order. Or wander through the hundreds of fan sites, scattered here and there around the world, and get interesting gizmos like new skins for cars or new facilities, including a variety of cars. Play the GTA III! No matter pristavochnik you or adherent PC. Game, despite some imperfections. Play, win and play again. A GTA III among other virtues, surely go down in history more PC-games and how most high-quality port with the console.

Wild Arms 4

Author: Natalia Odintsova
Source: Country Games № October 2006	17.05.2006

Dusty wind of the Wild West has breathed life into the original Wild Arms. Spirit of this western magically transformed an ordinary fantasy RPG. Faded colors of the boundless prairies, solitary wanderers, traveling in search of fortune and, of course, firearms, forbidden legacy of a distant past - a proven formula wandered out of the game in the game. And no one is surprised that the Cowboys get on with magicians and knights against the backdrop of castles and villages.

Greed: Black Border

Author: Dmitry Zlotnitsky
Source: Country Games № April 2010	05.03.2010

How many times have warned visionaries of all stripes: you see a spaceship, is not filed evidence of life - flew its tenth gipertrassoy. But the conquerors of interstellar space continually ignored basic safety precautions while on their heads dashing bunch of trouble.

FIFA Street 2

Authors: Yuri «Voron» Lewandowski
Source: Country Games № October 2006	17.05.2006

First FIFA Street was a messy, crooked, but still brought a lot of fun and merriment. The new part of the same is true deserves the numbers in the title - is not just another FIFA 2048, which added finally, click the sticky mold with Ganymede *. Game refined, polished and enriched by a multitude of new chips that put her on a whole new level.

Penumbra: Requiem

Source: Country Games № 19 2008	04.10.2008

GENERAL APPEARANCE: The Swedish studio Frictional Games after Valve offered his view on the idea of portals - addition to Penumbra: Black Plague, which bears the subtitle Requiem. In fact, this collection of puzzles, built on the physics of the original game.

Dungeon Siege II

Orchunter
	09.10.2005

Platform: PC Genre: Action / RPG Developer: Gas Powered Games Publisher: Microsoft Project website: http://www.microsoft.com/games/dungeonsiege2 System requirements: P-4 2.2 GHz; 512Mb RAM; 64 Mb Video Experienced players have long known the following axiom: hope to get Microsoft's something really innovative - is like an agonizing wait for Duke Nukem Forever, or even Fallout 3. Unnatural waste of time and effort. Once the reservation that Dungeon Siege II - not the exception, just another high budget confirmed the reputation of the creative team to them. Bill Gates. The new word in the cloning of a clone of Diablo II, no more and no less. But you're still in it's going to play, right? Forget Jason Steytmana! Probably the only thing that could not boast of the first Dungeon Siege, was a fitting scale bloodletting enemy plot. The story of avenging the farmers whose Villains hacked to death his wife and child may like the look a respected film director Uwe Boll (Uwe Boll) - now it just right deals adaptation of "Dungeon Siege". This time the guys from Gas Powered Games to fork out for a writer Susan O'Connor (Susan O'Connor), composed the well itself adequate, even banal (you do not forget who is the publisher of the game?), History of fantasy world. The action of Dungeon Siege II takes place about two hundred years before the global sweeps dungeons semi-divine farmer. All, as in the ordinary books of foreign fiction mid-90's: originally evil king found in the depths of the world's incredible power sword, resulting in "poplohel" even stronger and began to enslave the entire population Aran. Guess who will teach wits before the final credits? The hero, incidentally, was originally on the side of the army, Valdis (so called main adversary), but after a failed campaign and the traditional act of betrayal, falls into the camp of "good", which takes the local cultural values ​​and is on the other side. The farther into the woods ... Start Dungeon Siege II once more daunting. Most starting areas like the nondescript monotonous scenery from the middle of the first part. But walking along the narrow chute of the plot in the wilds of the game, you find that sometimes come quite tolerable surroundings, which need to look exclusively at the highest position the camera. Otherwise you ready to spoil the fun unpleasant jerky angles with unhealthy patterns - both game and wards. Oath of Chris Taylor (Chris Taylor) at E3, about consciousness the stunning graphics, did not materialize. Clips, which you so admired, were normal prerenderennymi clippings from the game, nothing to do with the gameplay lacking. Moreover, the player's side to distinguish from the first Dungeon Siege and Dungeon Siege II does not always succeed.Boring and sad. The key is to start Fortunately, praise Gas Powered Games still have something. Management of party members, and without that shone forth in Dungeon Siege, now and at all brought up (in a whisper) perfection. The successful arrangement of keyboard shortcuts, pulling frequently used skills in the quick bar and stuff, stuff, stuff. Some transformations undergone and role-playing system. Making the choice of 4 available classes (fighter, archer, mage, healer), you thus choose for themselves further gaming lifestyle. Because at the same time trying to succeed and in healing and in perpetration of bloody bath will be terribly expensive. Gas Powered Games has introduced a system of pumping of certain skills instead of squeezing out traditional practices and its subsequent distribution among the players' interest skills. In Dungeon Siege II Character, hunted wild boar shooting, eventually gets a point for the acquisition of special skills, typical for his profession. It may be possible to fire two arrows at once (the archer) or discipline possession of two swords (the fighter). Thus, attempts to grow "generalists" in the world of Aran will be very disadvantageous for playing too. Quartet tolkinistov By the way, the vacant space in your party, it was decided to cut back. Playing on the «Easy», you're free to have authority over no more than 4 fighters, and to get more hands have to go all over again on «Medium» and «Hard». Of course, nobody forbids to cut the catacombs in splendid isolation, but in case of untimely death no one will be able to submit you a helping hand - to resurrect and return to duty. And the trophy barahlishko with friends is much easier to carry. The number of available zverushek also increased. Now in the stall next to friends you sad donkey from the previous series settled fairly impressive spiders and golems. At the beginning of these prosecutors will be the minimum, but if you feed them regularly fall out of minions Valdis swords, shields, chain mail and drugs, eventually they manhood, and will bring tangible benefits. As a postscript Despite the general secondary, minimal differences with the first part, annoying pompous and symphonic tracks and stigma "clone old Diablo», Dungeon Siege II painstakingly selects the hours of your free time. In the booze in it, though, will not play, but as a means of mental relaxation - at the time. Gameplay: 7.0 Graphics: 6.0 Sound and music: 6.0 Design: 8.0 Estimation of the author: 7.0 Outcome: 70%

Bomberman

Author: VP
Source: Country Games № 15 2007	07.09.2007

For 25 years Bomberman visited almost all platforms. Not without offensive blunders - to take at least last year's Act Zero for Xbox 360, and Bomberman World for PS one: at first we tried to get to play in 3D, while the second presented a familiar world in isometric projection. Some development and does appreciate only the most desperate fans - for example, Bomberman Fantasy Race or Bomberman Kart DX. However, most rules have roamed out of the game in the game without any changes: a funny man in a white suit, put a bomb in a maze of narrow corridors, fighting off dozens of excessively stupid opponents. Current Bomberman for the PSP over a hundred levels to be successful legacy of their ancestors.

Shrek Smash and Crash

Author: VP
Source: Country Games № 15 2007	07.09.2007

No special necessity wait exit regular part blockbuster to make game involving his personages. In order not to puzzle over the plot and ideas, the easiest way to iterate over all the major genres. It is well known to all good-natured ogre-colored marsh can be a great hero Shrek Strategy, Shrek Adventure, Shrek Blackjack, Shrek MMORPG, yes even Shrek Tetris in the end! While developers have managed to learn only platformers, wrestling simulators and arcade racing - the drop in the ocean!

Jeanne D'Arc

Author: Eugene Zakirov
Source: Country Games № 19 2007	29.09.2007

History of the Virgin of Orleans, spiced with magic and demons, plus a little imagination - and that's before us is one of the most anticipated games on the PSP. For some reason the publisher is not going to show it to the West, and only after several months of successful Japanese sales was announced that the English-speaking part of the world's population will be able to find out the truth about Joan of Arc. And also add points hireyuschey PSP - after all, descended outstanding representative of a rare genre in our time.

Shadow Hearts: From the New World

Author: Natalia Odintsova
Source: Country Games № December 2006	17.06.2006

Series Shadow Hearts, as soon as the train rushes through the troubled times of history, started his spurt with a half-forgotten Koudelka for PlayStation 1 and tumultuous decline of 19 century and gained momentum in the Shadow Hearts c follow Shadow Hearts: Covenant. A mixture of ordinary and mysterious as the setting for an excellent RPG was a lure: the hunters to run through the English monasteries in search of ancient manuscripts, or drive on over evil spirits at the Hermitage was found sufficient.

Metroid Prime Hunters

Author: Sergey «TD» Tsilyurik
Source: Country Games № December 2006	18.06.2006

If you - the owner of the GameCube and have not played at any time in Metroid Prime, your life is definitely lived in vain. If the elegant brick from Nintendo you do not, and you (ah!) for some reason did not read the 131-th issue of "SI", then I gladly will state a concise axiom: Metroid Prime - the perfect game. A unique blend of FPS and adventure with a clear predominance of the latter, a huge colorful world for the study, an unforgettable battle with the bosses, the search for new skills and use them for further advancement in the world - in other words, all that was best in the series Metroid, at Prime embodied in the colorful 3D. The department used avtopritselivanie, as the main tool in the study of the world became Scan Visor, showing the visor on the helmet of our favorite heroine of all the necessary information about the scanned object.

The Sims 2: Open for Business

Author: Marina Petrashko
Source: Country Games № August 2006	07.04.2006

When should you give an example of cynical knock money out of gamers, for some reason most often remember The Sims. Say, EA sells for five times noodle one and the same game, adding a couple of sofas and chandeliers. It is time to repent and acknowledge: the collective good reason EA eats his bread and butter. Under the guise of "additions" to the computers simofilov sneaks a serious threat: after installing The Sims 2: Open For Business gamer gets ... a completely different game. That sounds bold, but the fact remains - the new objects and classes filled with other decorations of the original meaning.

Star Wolves 2: Civil War

Author: Andrew Okushko
Source: Country Games № 13 2009	14.07.2009

Crashday

author: Ilia Chentsov
Source: Country Games № July 2006	20.04.2006

Hotly unloved with all the "real gamers" kazualy - not a crowd "of the casket from the same person." This word means simply people who play on occasion, and among them may be old and a teacher, and director of the bank's middle-aged and the young officer, biding their time on duty. All three love games, which is enough to pay for 15-20 minutes, but when I select a specific genre preferences may disperse.

Delta Force: Xtreme 2

Oleg Chebotarev
Source: PC GAMES number in August 2009	29-07-2009

Studio Novalogic - a phenomenon of approximately the same order as the average "a legend of Russian rock": people over the years doing the same thing, a collective mark anniversaries and firmly believe that the world is no one more talented than them is another matter that the world at this general, do not care.

Football Academy

Author: Alex Butrin
Source: Country Games № September 2009	20.05.2009

Somewhere deep under the ice of Antarctica is the base of a secret organization ZMPF ("Capturing the world through soccer"). During the championships, they organize the fans' outrage, at the weekend sent orders for the production of brass knuckles and baseball bats, "All-Russian Society for the Blind", and in the offseason in the name of EA Canada, in a secret laboratory № 318 produce psychotropic football and games - such as the Football Academy.

Geist

author: Spriggan
Source: Country Games № July 2006	21.04.2006

Despite the inevitability of death emergency GameCube, colorful designs is still replenish the treasury of the console. Golden rain, spilled in 2002-2003, has clearly will not, however alluring Baten Kaitos II, the ambitious The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, amusing Chibi-Robo! and "Fighting» Yoot Saito's Odama - neither give nor take, rich wreaths. "From the Party Committee", "From the local committee, From loving friends" ... But while a pale shadow of the oblique yet worn around the far more weighty Xbox, and GC holders are waiting for a few more changes of course. On the first - Geist, a miracle tribesman Metroid Prime, and TimeSplitters. Bon appetit!

WarioWare: Smooth Moves

Author: Sergey «TD» Tsilyurik
Source: Country Games № June 2007	15.02.2007

WarioWare series has always been at the forefront of pioneering. The first part introduced a concept of "mikroigra, perhaps thereby creating its own subgenre. WarioWare: Twisted! threw a bunch of ideas of how to use gyros in the GBA-cartridge, and Touched!, appeared on the DS a couple of months after the release of the console itself (and in Europe - and at the same time with her), found a bunch of applications and dvuhekrannosti and touchscreen, and built-in microphone . So Smooth Moves is the same way, showing us what a wonder-console Wii.

Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness

Author: Etnochka
Source: Country Games № March 2008	01.02.2008

Hello you are still a time, boys and girls! You, of course, missed the glorious and incomparable lady demons Etnochke, is not it? Fortunately for all, a reason to appear before your eyes betrayed introduced even earlier than I expected: a third Disgaea still looms on the horizon, and Nippon Ichi unexpectedly took and suffered the first part of the PSP. The first part! The same one that single-handedly revived the genre and propelled me to fame and public adoration! And it is not anywhere but on a portable console, just perfect for endless manchkinizma in the endless dungeons! Chudesnenko!

Tomb Raider Underworld

Marina Petrashko
Source: Country Games № 24 2008	29.12.2008